Helping innovative tech companies
achieve their goals.
RESPONSIVE. PRACTICAL. cost-effective.
Shapiro Legal Counsel, PLLC ("SLC") works collaboratively with your technology company as a team member to help you achieve your business goals. Keeping your company's best interests in mind, SLC is responsive, business-minded and mindful of your budget.
As a former in-house general counsel, Kathy Shapiro, founder of SLC, understands first hand the pressures of managing a company's many internal legal matters in a timely and cost-effective way.
Excited by the transformative powers of new technology and innovative thinking, Kathy focuses on helping tech entrepreneurs and companies build a solid legal foundation for growth. Kathy can serve as your company's virtual general counsel or augment your in-house legal capabilities. As a generalist who can manage day-to-day legal issues, Kathy can assist your company with all in-house legal matters, including the following:
drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of agreements including strategic arrangements, sales, marketing, data licensing, vendor, consulting and other arrangements
assisting your sales team in the preparation and negotiation of agreements to shorten the contract review cycle
creating practical, tailored form agreements, especially for novel situations
setting up a legal department infrastructure
counseling on business and legal issues arising from day-to-day operations.
some recent client projects include:
General Corporate
providing "Legal 101" training to a company's worldwide sales team to empower the sales people to negotiate certain terms on their own and shorten the sales cycle
creating SaaS form agreements for revenue-generating customers
creating form partner referral agreements
creating custom consulting and other agreements
updating tailored Terms of Service, Privacy Policies and other general customer-facing agreements
drafting form API license agreements
advising and assisting clients with a wide variety of contract negotiations